William Le Queux (1906) If England Were Invaded / The Invasion of 1910 / The Invasion The text is available as a .pdf here. Description (from Wikipedia): The novel was originally commissioned by Alfred Harmsworth…

E. Phillips Oppenheim (1905) A Maker of History “Not as you and I understand it, perhaps,” Spencer explained. “There is no Scotland Yard extending a protecting arm over the place, and that sort of thing.…

E. Phillips Oppenheim (1898) The Mysterious Mr Sabin It was largely the success of his first spy novel, Mysterious Mr. Sabin (1898), that enabled Oppenheim to relinquish control over the family business and devote himself…

George Tomkyns Chesney (1871) The Battle of Dorking, Blackwood’s Magazine Chesney was a captain in the Royal Engineers and had grown concerned over the ramshackle state of Britain’s armed forces. He used fiction as a…

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers This is the book that has probably introduced more current readers to Invasion Literature than any other. It has appeared in countless editions since its publication and…

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